Storage and display stand



STORAGE AND DISPLAY STAND Filed D60. 30, 1950 3 Sheets-Sheet l III Oct. 26, 1954 1, A, wlNGER 2,692,810 l STORAGE AND DsPLAY STAND Filed Dec. 30, 1950 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 46 4? 4J 4.9 )fg if .4f MAE 5,4 7 7 IV 44 INVENTOR'. l ./sEPH /Z W/@Eg Oct. 26, 1954 J, A WINGER 2,692,810

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disposal drawer, and means are provided for locking such closure panels in compartment-closing position, where they also lock the two drawers in closed position.

In this specication, I use canned and can generically. The cabinet of my invention is particularly intended for the storage and display of products, such as oil, put up in the common cylindrical metal cans, but it is also useful for, and I intend to include, containers of other materials, as of paper, glass, etc., and containers of other shapes than cylindrical,

The accompanying drawing illustrates my in vention:

In such drawing, Fig. l is a front elevation of a cabinet embodying my invention, with the closure panels shown in storage position; Fig.` 2. is aside elevation of the cabinet with one closure panel shown in .stored position against the near side of the cabinet, and with a second closure panel Y shown in closure position against the right-hand face of the cabinet; Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a vertical central section of the cabinet; Fig. 5 is a partial horizontal section .taken on the line 5 5 of Fig. e; and Fig. 6 is a partial horizontal section taken on the line 'ti-S of Fig. 41.

The .cabinet shown in the drawing comprises a basey lil, two side walls l2, a top Id, and two closure panels l5 shown in Fig. l in storage posi# tion, all of formed sheet metal. The in-turned edges of each side wall l2 are connected by three angle-iron shelf supports I8, Ywith the horizontal legs thereof extending inwardly from the bottom of the` vertical legs. The two side walls are interconnected by a horizontal panel 2% which supports the bottom set of shelves and which vforms the door of the oil storage portion of the cabinet. Such floor panel 2i? has 11p-turned side iianges le, and is connected to narrow 'front panels 2i extending between the side-walls l2. A second horizontal panel 22 forms thetcp of that oil storage portion and a door for the utility drawer compartment. A. central transverse pan-el Zit extending vertically between the said two panels divides the oil storagey portion of the cabinet into two oppositely-open oil-storage compartments. Conveniently the central panel isprovided with notches 26 to pass the shelf supports it.

At `the bottom, the cabinet is provided with a suitable support for a slidable can-disposal drawer 3i), and this is shown as a third horizontal panel 28. The can-disposal drawer it is conveniently of frame construction, comprising two drawer fronts 32, a bottom panel 3ft, and brace members 35 joining the drawer fronts 32 to the bottoni 3d at the corners of the drawer. The drawer fronts close the space between the side walls i2 at the lower portions of the front and rear faces of the cabinet, below the front panel 2 i. Desirably each drawer front 32 is provided with a hand opening 33, closed against the entrance of rain by a cupped stamping 39.

The utility drawer liti at the top of the cabinet slides on the horizontal panel 22 and lies between that panel and the top i ti. It has a drawer front at each end, desirably provided with a hand opening fifi, closed against the entrance of rain by a cupped stamping file. The two drawer fronts 42 close the space between the side walls l2 abovethe horizontal panel 22,. and desirably the top lil is providedwith a lip it overhanging each drawer front d2 to prevent entrance of 'water into the drawer. side .wall 4S of the-utility .drawer lll is formed As is best seen in Fig.' 6, each d to provide an elongated groove 129, and this is engaged by a pair of spring pressed detents 5G which serve to center the drawer dil in closed position and to arrest its movement as it is opened.

On each of the shelf supports i3 and le in each of the oil compartments, there is a slidable shelf 54, conveniently of open wire construction. Desirably, each shelf is two cans deep and four cans wide, so that each shelf will carry eight cans, in two rows. Each shelf has an inner canstorage position, as is shown at the upper left in Fig. 4, in which its rear edge lies adjacent the central panel 2li and its front edge lies behind the position of the closure panel it and preferably behind the outer edges of the side walls l2. Each shelf is slidable outward to the display position shown at the upper right in Fig. 4, a distance of approximately half the diameter of a can, and in the displayl position, the front half of the front cans on the shelf are exposed and project forward beyond the outer edges of the side walls' l2. Desirably, the forwarder display positions of the shelves are xed by suitable stops 56, conveniently formed as iingers upturned from the horizontal legs of the shelf supports i3.

There are thus two can-receiving compartments, eachl containing a plurality of can-receiving shelves. With four such shelves in each compartment and with eight cans on each shelf, a total'of 64 quart cans of cil may be stored in the cabinet, which is ample to provide ready availability of all of the necessary weights of oil. Each can-receiving compartment ils open at the front, and the two compartments open at opposite faces of the cabinet. l

To close the cabinet, as at night, there is a closure panel l@ provided for each compartment opening. This is in the form of a sheet metal stamping, with inturned edges, and is of a size to overlap the side walls i2, and to overlap both the utility drawer d and the candisposal drawer 3i?. To support the closure panel it in closed position, it is provided with four inwardly projecting and down-turned fingers t2 at spaced points adjacent its side edges, and these lingers *32 take into openings et in the front ends of the first and third shelf supports ld. Each closure panel is desirably provided with a'hand opening li, closed against rain by a cupped stamping i3. Adjacent the top of each compartment opening there is a latch keeper t6, conveniently carried by the horizontal panel 29E, and adjacent the topy of each closure panel te there is a loci; t8 having a latch 'it which may be moved into locked engagement with the keeper iii.

The cabinet is desirably substantially square in plan, and the horizontal dimensions ofthe cabinet are so inter-related that the closure vpanels l may be mounted either in compartment-closing positions, .shown in dotted lines at the top and bottom of Fig. 3, or in storage positions shown in full lines at the sides of Fig. 3. To support the closure panels i6 in storage position, the side walls I2 of the cabinet are each provided with openings 'i6 to pass the fingers 32, and brackets 'i8 are mounted behind such openings l to be engaged by the fingers ci and to retain the Closure panels iirrnly against the side walls i2.

My cabinet may be mounted at any convenient locationat a service station, and it is especially adapted for mounting on the service island with the usual gasoline dispensing pumps, and vcanr be made to harmonize in appearance with those pumps. Normally it will be xed in position, as by bolting its base to the' service island, and disposed with its can-receiving compartments opening at the opposite sides of the service island.

The several shelves of the two compartments are filled with cans of oil, in any convenient arrangement of different weights of oil, and the two compartments will contain a total of 64 quarts of such canned oil. With the shelves all lled and in their extreme-outward or display positions, the front cans on each shelf will project outward from the cabinet to form a prominent display. Similar displays are provided at both sides of the island. In such displays, the cans are readily and conveniently available for use, and as one can is withdrawn from a shelf, another may be moved forward from the rear row, to maintain the prominence and attractiveness of the display.

An empty carton is desirably placed in the candisposal drawer 30, and as each can of oil is used., the drawer is opened and the empty can is stacked in that carton and thus promptly disposed of.

As occasion arises, the shelves can be refilled and the carton of empty cans removed. Storage capacity is such, however, that this will not ordinarily need to be done during rush periods.

During use of the cabinet the closure panels I6 are positioned as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, in face-out position against the side walls I2 of the cabinet. Such panels I6 may carry advertising matter, which will be displayed when the closure panels are in this stored position.

To close the cabinet, the several shelves 54 are pushed inward to their storage positions, which carries them and their cans behind the closed position of the closure panels. The closure panels I6 are then lifted from their stored positions as shown in Fig. 1 and are moved to closed position as shown in Fig. 4. In that position they not only close the oil-receiving compartments, but overlap the utility drawer and the empty can drawer, to hold those drawers closed. The closure panels I6 may then be locked in closed position by the lock 68. Any advertising matter which the panels carry will be prominently displayed throughout the period when the cabinet is closed.

My cabinet will avoid the necessity, required with previous canned oil display racks, either of carrying the oil itself into the station when it is closed or of carrying any cumbersome covermembers into the station when the station is open.

Ready and immediate deposition of empty cans is provided for, and the cans may be returned to the cartons from which they came, and finally disposed of in carton lots.

With my cabinet, the station operator can maintain an adequate supply of all weights of canned oil within ready reach as he serves each customer, station appearance and efficiency will be improved, and an advantageous display of oil will be within the view to all customers, whether they drive to one side or the other of the service island.

I claim as my invention:

1. A storage and display cabinet for canned oil, comprising a Walled casing forming a pair of oppositely-facing, open-front storage compartments, removable closures for the open fronts of said compartments, means to support said closures in compartment-closing position a series of movable shelves in each compartment, each of said shelves being arranged to carry a display row of cans at the front and reserve cans behind the display cans, said shelves having a display position in which they project beyond the closure position a distance equal to approximately one-half the thickness of a can and in which the front halves of a display row of cans thereon are exposed outside said compartment and reserve cans thereon are concealed within the compartment behind the display-row of cans, stop means to position said shelves in their display positions, said shelves also having a storage position in which the shelves and the cans thereon are behind said. closure position, and means to store said closures against the( side walls of said casing.

2. A storage and display cabinet as dened in claim l, which is generally rectangular in shape and which has side walls of a width at least as wide as said closures, and means to support said closures in face-outward position against said side-walls.

3. A storage and display cabinet as defined in claim l, with the addition of a disposal drawer below said storage compartments and oppositely openable in directions of opening of said compartments, said closures being arranged to overlap the ends of said drawer when in compartment-closing position, to prevent drawer openingwhen said compartments are closed.

4. A dispensing and display cabinet, comprising a base, a pair of generally upright side-walls, a horizontal partition dividing the space between said side walls, a disposal drawer below said partition, a central partition above said horizontal partition and forming with said side-walls a pair of oppositely-facing open-front storage compartments, supports in each compartment adapted to support items thereon in exposed display position projecting beyond the front edges of said compartments, and a removable closure panel for each compartment which in closed position overlaps said drawer, and means to lock said closure panels in compartment-closing position with their lower edges overlapping the drawer.

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